For Star subscribers: American congressmen are threatening military force across the border, and Mexico's president is firing back. He has a good point: In the end, the fentanyl problems is ours.
Tim Steller It took 1 hour and 38 minutes Thursday afternoon to crawl from the back of the vehicle line to the inspection station at the DeConcini Port of Entry in downtown Nogales.That inspection was detailed enough in our case: My colleague Danyelle Khmara and I are U.S. citizens who were bringing nothing more than a handful of cookies across the border after a few hours reporting in Mexico.
People are also reading… Fifty years of experience tells us that, unfortunately, there is no realistic way to stop these devastating drugs from coming into the country. Many of our families, including my extended family, are dealing with the disastrous result. But if we couldn't stop bundles of weed, we aren't going to stop bags of pills.
Threatening military action in Mexico, or actually carrying it out, may make some people feel like they're doing something serious about the problem, but 50 years of Drug War experience tells us it will not have any long-lasting effect. It wasn't even a month ago when, on Feb. 14, Mexican soldiers raided a laboratory in Sinaloa and seized 630,000 pills. Mexicans produce lots of fentanyl, using chemicals largely obtained from China, and send them on to the United States, through ports of entry like the ones in Nogales."We regret deeply what's happening in the United States, but why don't they address the problem?" Lopez Obrador went on.
Local news Take our latest Tucson News Quiz! Family disintegration, a torn social safety net, uneven education opportunities, unaffordable housing and expensive health care — these social factors all help create the market that fentanyl producers and dealers are exploiting.
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